June 2009 Blog Posts (11)

I have just completed teaching 2 sections of bookbinding for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science's Midwest Book and Manuscript Studies Program. You can find out more about MBMS and their classes and internships here: http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/mbms/

After Reggio Emilia, Rovereto and London, a new staging of the exhibition Sublime by Michael Nyman.
In occasion of the concert for solo piano by Nyman at the Teatro Massimo, the City Council of Cagliari organises, the Sublime exhibition: 10 large panels and 14 individual photographs. The panels are made of photographs structured following visual and music rhythms: the composition of the word "Sublime" on a street in central London, the series dedicated to passersby in the city of Mantua… Continue

I want to thank everyone here at Artist Books 3.0. For the past few months I've been hanging out and listening and getting inspired. Today I have published my first art book. I am part of an international community of artists. We've all met online. Many of us are successful, some are young and emerging, others are older and choosing to follow a new path. We all are ambitious and talented. The community is called… Continue

Way back in 1992, when I was attending the University of Victoria's Creative Writing program, I had an assignment for second year Fiction to make a book. The working definition of "book" we were given was simply a series of sheets somehow attached together. Even "sheets" didn't have to be taken literally. Alas, back then I had a pretty narrow concept of what a book was (I suppose I kind of still do, in some ways).

Originally, I had grand plans to do a properly bound book sewn on… Continue

I have just stumbled upon this relly interesting work by Stan Shellaberger, "Walking Books". Check out the blurb on www.westernexhibitions.com in past exhibitions section. Bringing The Body, The Everyday and Books together! Fascinating.

Axioms/Idioms: a mapping of language/culture; history/memory; emotion/truth… by Lenni Morkel-Kingsbury and Melanie Wolfe opens July 2nd(6-8pm) at Hand Held Gallery.
Maps and charts are propositions of truth. They are axioms that we accept as being, somehow, self evidently true. Stumbling through both real and imagined psychological geographies, we explore the subjective nature of language. Given the incongruities that exist between the… Continue

Exhibit Dates: July 18 – August 31, 2009
Artists will be notified of acceptance by July 15.
Theme: Bridges
Venue: Em Space Book Arts Center
Juror: This exhibition will be juried by the Em Space Gallery Committee

ELIGIBILITY: Seeking original work relating to book arts in the form of prints, posters, books, and boxes (letterpress, silk screen, lino cut, etc.). The theme is… Continue

The conference in Philadelphia was a huge success with excellent panels and 100 vendors. There were numerous awards, and my offset book collection (12 books from 1975-2005) was awarded the Free Library of Philadelphia Purchase Prize. There will eventually be pod-casts of the presentations, including an excellent interview with Gunnar Kaldewey and Hedi Kyle. Watch their website for updates.… Continue

The exhibition presents two connected bodies of material: a survey of artists’ books by Australian painter, sculptor and bookmaker Robert Jacks (1942-2014), and an extensive selection of publications drawn from Jacks’ own collection, many of which were purchased from Printed Matter in the early years of the organization.

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